Expectations, Tasks and assignments (was: Assembly vs. Everything

While I agree that BASIC is a good starting point to get into programming, I think that BASIC itself is a lot more powerful than most people give it credit. I've written any number of database applications in compiled PowerBasic over the years, some of them fully able to read/write dBase III format files. One of them was a modular inventory/sales type program that comprised of nearly a dozen seperate programs that were only called when needed. The whole application took up less than 1meg of disk space and was replaced by a similar program written in FoxPro that took up nearly 10 times the disk space and lacked in quite a few areas that the original program was able to handle. I wrote my own functions for sorting and file handling and such based on the demands of each individual application. Jeff -- Home of the TRS-80 Model 2000 FAQ File http://www.cchaven.com http://www.geocities.com/siliconvalley/lakes/6757